Goodbye for now, kmail

[Martin Steigerwald]

Anders Lund - 06.05.17, 11:20:
> På Sat, 06 May 2017 00:05:56 +0200
> 
> Martin Steigerwald <martin at lichtvoll.de> skrev:
> > I didn´t try Claws Mail yet, but I expect it to get this right and
> > this is a major advantage of any mail client that gets this right.
> 
> Both claws mail and thunderbird displays a mail when asked to. They do
> not have the BSOD "feature" of kmail. Probably, no other email client
> in the world is as silly as kmail in this regard. For the rest, I mostly
> prefer kmail, was it only able to display mails...

Thanks for confirming that. That is what I´d expect.

Again, just for clarity:

KMail isn´t at fault here. It *waits* for Akonadi. There is nothing it can do 
about that. So using your language: It is not KMail that is silly, but Akonadi 
is. (Well some may consider KMail to be silly since it relies on Akonadi 
tough… but I remember KMail pre-akonadi times and its own index file management 
had its flaws as well. It has been more than once that I deleted some broken 
index files back then and KMail then just didn´t show its main window until it 
has rebuild all those index files. Also KMail GUI was basically blocked on 
retrieving new mails via POP or moving lots of mails.)

I think the main idea behind Akonadi is brilliant. Have a separate component 
to deal with the work to retrieve, store, cache mails. This way KMail can 
always be responsive to user requests. That it currently despite this nice 
concept is not, is a flaw in Akonadi, not in KMail.

So I am against moving all the ground work back into KMail – as I fully agree 
to idea to have it outside of it. I am for fixing Akonadi *or* it that is not 
possible within a reasonable amount of time and effort (that has been exceeded 
already if you ask me, but lets say from now on) replace it with something 
that works. Yet Sink even does not have complete functionality as of now as 
far as I Know. It has IMAP, but I don´t think it has POP3 which I myself and 
some other KMails I know of are using, and I am not sure about its local 
maildir capabilities. Not to speak of also handling calenders and contacts. 
And do fulltext indexing.

-- 
Martin